See #770
To help automatically translate code, see the
zig-fmt-pointer-reform-2 branch.
This will convert all & into *. Due to the syntax
ambiguity (which is why we are making this change),
even address-of & will turn into *, so you'll have
to manually fix thes instances. You will be guaranteed
to get compile errors for them - expected 'type', found 'foo'
The purpose of this is:
* Only one way to do things
* Changing a function with void return type to return a possible
error becomes a 1 character change, subtly encouraging
people to use errors.
See #632
Here are some imperfect sed commands for performing this update:
remove arrow:
```
sed -i 's/\(\bfn\b.*\)-> /\1/g' $(find . -name "*.zig")
```
add void:
```
sed -i 's/\(\bfn\b.*\))\s*{/\1) void {/g' $(find ../ -name "*.zig")
```
Some cleanup may be necessary, but this should do the bulk of the work.
* fix fstat wrong on darwin
* move std.debug.global_allocator to std.debug.global_allocator_state and make it private
* add std.debug.global_allocator as a pointer (to upgrade your zig code remove
the '&')
* See #204 - zig build system
* allow builtin types Os, Environ, Arch to be used at runtime.
they have zero_bits=false and debug info now.
* Eradicate use of `@alloca` in std for syscalls. See #225
* add `std.io.writeFile`
* `std.debug.panic` adds a newline to format
* In-progress os.ChildProcess.spawn implementation. See #204
* Add explicit cast from integer to error. Closes#294
* fix casting from error to integer
* fix compiler crash when initializing variable to undefined
with no type
Andrew Kelley
kristopher tate
tgschultz
Marc Tiehuis
Jeff Fowler
Snorre